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Most researched and best-known bullying prevention
program available today.
The program addresses bullying at all levels of a student’s
experience (school-wide, classroom, individual, and
community levels).
The goal of the Olweus Program is to restructure the
school setting itself so that bullying is less likely to occur
or be rewarded.
The implementation of the program is seen as a longterm effect and is comprehensive in it’s approach.
Bullying is when someone repeatedly
and on purpose says or does mean or
hurtful things to another person who has
a hard time defending himself or herself.
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All student’s in Grades 6-8 participated in anti-bullying
classroom guidance lesson.
All student’s in Grades 6-8 signed an anti-bullying pledge
which are displayed in the grade level hallways.
All Hightower Trail Middle School students participated in a
school-wide anti-bullying week (class meeting, dress up days,
and daily quotes)
Anti-bullying t-shirt contest.
Regular class meetings.
Anti-Bullying posters with the school rules are displayed in
every classroom.
A system is in place to report bullying behavior.
Peer Mediation Program to promote peaceful conflict
resolution skills.
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The survey provides information critical to planning our
bullying prevention effort.
Provides a baseline from which to measure progress in
reducing bullying.
The questionnaire is an anonymous questionnaire.
Address questions such as: What types of bullying are
most common? Where does bullying occur? How often
do student report bullying? How do students feel about
bullying?
Graph 1a. Number of girls and boys responding by grade
200
180
162
160
150
140
140
137
142
140
120
Girls
100
Boys
80
60
40
20
0
6th
7th
8th
Graph 3c. Percentage of girls and boys who have been bullied
"2-3 times a month" or more (Q4 dichotomized)
30%
20%
Girls and Boys
14%
10%
9%
National Comparison
10%
8%
0%
6th
7th
8th
Total
Graph 6e. Percentage of girls and boys involved in bullying
30%
20%
National Comparison
15%
Bully only
Bully-victim
Victim only
10%
9%
8%
6th
7th
0%
8th
Graph 7. Ways of being bullied, for students who reported being bullied "2-3 times a month"
or more (Q4)
7%
Verbal
6%
Exclusion
Physical
1%
Rumors
Threat
1%
0%
2%
3%
4%
Sexual
1%
8%
6%
3%
2%
Another Way
0%
6%
2%
Racial
Cyber
6%
5%
5%
Damage
14%
2%
Girls
6%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
Boys
14%
16%
18%
20%
Graph 11c. Percentage of bullied girls and boys (according to
Table 3b) who have told/not told anybody about the bullying
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
42%
40%
30%
34%
32%
Told
parent/guardian
Told brother,
sister, or friend
25%
20%
10%
0%
Told teacher or
another adult at
school
Told nobody
Girls and Boys
National Comparison
Graph 15. Interventions by teachers or other adults at school. Percentage
of students who responded "often" or "almost always" to Q20: How often
do the teachers or other adults at school try to put a stop to it when a
student is being bullied at school?
Graph 20. Reactions from the peer group (The Bullying Circle).
Percentage of students who respond that they “try to help the bullied
student” (Q37), if they see or learn that a student their age is being
bullied.
100%
100%
90%
90%
80%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
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0%
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 Percentage
of students reporting that teachers
try to put a stop to bullying behavior
increased by 20% since 2005
 Percentage of students reporting that other
students try to put a stop to bullying behavior
increased by 68%
Hightower Trail continues to have an
overall bullying rate well below the
national average and our data is very
positive overall.
 Continue
holding class meetings
 Continue following procedures for
reporting bullying
 Develop rubric to help identify bullying
behavior
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